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AN EASY BET TO 70 WIN it took only a short time to collect more than twenty fools Io they stopped to the lio edge of tho the sidewalk and looked long nd earD earnestly in the direction of tile tho cornice of one of the big buildings of course under the 0 circumstances the man who had bad been standing in the doorway felt impelled to join them he could not seo anything extraordinary at tile top of tho building lint int 1 ho kept liia bis eyes upturned because they hoy did A man who was hurrying along saw the three and be at once for forgot got where he was going and what lie he had bad to do and joined them 1 I told you EO said the man who bad first cast his eyes iu in that direction and ile ho made a motion as it if to point out lor nothing to hi ani companion n four mon men who were passing saw the gesture and stopped to investigate and before they had fairly fixed their gaze upon tile 10 cornice three others joined them you may be right returned the companion of tho man who had bad first spoken but you said 20 you yon know six more people including two women wore now dow st straining their eyes to seme eee what was wrong with the cornice and a rumor was iu in circulation that some one had tried to throw a child out ont of one of the windows this was promptly denied by tho the man who knows it all and who is always present ou on such au all occasion ilo ile said that a gang of counter deiters lind had boon found on the top floor and had bad taken refuge on the roof where they wore preparing to do battlo with the officers who had bad been sent to arrest them meanwhile the he little group at the edge of the sidewalk had bad swelled to a crowd of over a hundred well are you yon satisfied now asked the man who had bad first stopped yes replied his bis companion there are moro than 20 more ilore than 20 what anxiously inquired several of those nearest the two fools returned the first speaker promptly inspired idiots you yon see we had a dispute as to the number of fools to bo be seen on the streets of a great city and I 1 bet birwe him we could gather 20 around us in ten minutes by simply standing out hero here and looking up at the cornice gentlemen there are more than 20 of you yon here and I 1 win will then a hundred or more solemn looking men and a few yemen women went on about their business and they all felt liko licking kicking themselves without int intermission er for a period of not less than two hours bours chicago post